Databases & E-Reference Materials

Provides access to important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease. Works of epic and lyric poetry, drama, history, philosophy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and more are included in this resource.

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

Archives the historical African-American newspaper, Los Angeles Sentinel, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. Full text is available.

Full text online archive of the Los Angeles Times, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues.

The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying provides a historical and cross-cultural perspective on all aspects of death and dying, including biological, medical, social, sociological, psychological, religious, and philosophical.

From one of the most important periods of legal development, this archive is a comprehensive full text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises. It allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas.

The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is a collection of documents from Anglo-American trials. Contains works pertaining to the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, and English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Resources include published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions; and books and pamphlets about specific trials. Topics include adultery, commercial law, constitutional law, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, military offenses, murder, sexuality, slavery, torts, treason, and wills.

The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection covers the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism. Resources include rare books and primary source materials covering a variety of subjects, including commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

The Market Share Reporter series is an annual compilation of comparative business statistics on companies and their products. Each entry in the publication features a descriptive title, data and market descriptions, a list of producers/products along with their market share, and citations of original sources. Data is complied from a variety of sources, including journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Contains full text for hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books, plus biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection.